Virtual Power Plant
More Than Backup. More Than Storage.
A sonnen Virtual Power Plant connects intelligent home batteries into one powerful energy network—optimizing energy every day, protecting homes during outages, and supporting a cleaner, more resilient electric grid. It's energy storage that's working for your home and for the communities around you.
Intelligence That Unlocks More from Every Battery.
sonnen’s groundbreaking Virtual Power Plant (VPP) technology intelligently coordinates residential and commercial battery systems to optimize when energy is stored, used, and shared. By continuously responding to home energy needs and grid conditions, sonnen helps maximize battery value while supporting a more resilient electric grid.
sonnenConnect
A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Program for sonnenHome battery owners.
Wattsmart Battery
VPP Program
A unique Virtual Power Plant Program from Rocky Mountain Power
Intelligent battery solutions
sonnen's safe, long-lasting energy storage systems are engineered for daily performance—not just backup power. Designed for Virtual Power Plant participation, they deliver industry-leading lifetime energy throughput, helping maximize the long-term value of every battery (see Warranty for details).
Virtual Power Plant software
sonnen's VPP software intelligently connects and manages networks of batteries, transforming individual energy storage systems into one powerful, coordinated energy resource. Through continuous optimization, sonnen helps maximize battery value while providing critical flexibility to the grid.
Innovative VPP programs
We've developed commercially operational VPP programs that deliver real results, available now in California, Puerto Rico, Texas, New England and expanding rapidly in the near future. Our sonnenConnect program allows you to enroll your energy storage system and earn rewards for allowing sonnen to optimize your battery to help support the grid.
An innovative energy model to grow your business
Learn how a partnership between sonnen (visionary pioneer in VPPs), the local utility (Rocky Mountain Power), and a local developer (The Wasatch Group) helped define a model for a sustainable energy future.
sonnenVPP: The Key to the Energy Transition
Digital large-scale storage keeps green power flowing reliably
The challenge: Wind and solar energy depend on the weather. These fluctuations push our power grids to their limits.The solution: The sonnenVPP connects thousands of sonnen batteries into a digital large-scale storage system. It can store renewable energy and feed it back into the grid when needed. This makes green energy more predictable and helps reduce peak loads on the grid.
Lower costs for the overall system
The challenge: Local grid overloads, the expansion of reserve power plants, and short-term electricity imports create high costs every year. These costs ultimately fall on all electricity customers through grid fees and energy prices.
The solution: The sonnenVPP helps reduce these costs by allowing home batteries, often underused in winter, to take on valuable tasks. Costly interventions by grid operators become less frequent, while solar power is fed into the grid more strategically. This eases pressure on the energy market and lowers costs for everyone in the long run.
Citizen energy instead of large power plants
The challenge: For a long time, the energy sector was centrally organized with large power plants and little opportunity for individual participation.
The solution: Virtual power plants connect decentralized energy producers and storage systems. This strengthens the role of citizens in the energy sector. Anyone with a sonnen battery can easily take responsibility for greater supply security and climate protection, while also benefiting financially.
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